31 Songs Of Halloween: Sheb Wooley: The Purple People Eater

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17.10.15

The Purple People Eater is one of the best known novelty songs of all time, composed and made famous by Sheb Wooley in 1958 and it's about an one-eyed, one-horned, flying, purple people eater who eats purple people and wants to be in a rock 'n' roll band.

The song inspired a sci-fi comedy film of the same name to be made 30 years after its release and still to this day it's considered a Halloween classic.